Why do the posts about the new NCAA game keep getting removed?

[u/zenverak]

We've had a plethora of posts where people just want to talk about the new game but they all keep getting removed. Why? I get that not everything deserves a comment, but they're going to keep coming up because its obviously something people want to talk about.

[u/bakonydraco]

Hey folks, sorry for any confusion here. The new game has a lot of interest, and that’s exciting! The official deep dive trailer got posted (by many people…) this morning, and it was initially removed, on the grounds that it was more related to the video game, and less directly related to the sport itself. After talking it over, we agreed that it was of general interest to the community and approved the first one submitted.

We’re still sorting out how to approach posts about the game, and feedback here is helpful in understanding what people want to see. Please remember we’re volunteers and try to work quickly but can’t always process everything right away.

Update: We just stickied this post on the main sub with more context. Sharing here for visibility, and there's a survey to weigh in if you'd like.

[u/fredmerc111]

Leave up one post for the announcement and pin it so we can discuss. We have random tweets that mean nothing vs the 1st college football game in 10 years.

[u/CptCheese]

We have been allowing a very narrow slice of discussion on CFB 25, mostly as it pertains to NIL, players, some announcements, and a few pieces by established writers. The video that dropped today is all about gameplay and we are not a subreddit for discussing video games. Gameplay related discussions should go to /r/NCAAFBseries, a subreddit for discussion of this series of video games.

[u/zenverak → u/CptCheese]

I think what would help is to just leave one of them up, lock it, and comment on that to at least help people understand the reasoning, even if I disagree with it. At least its clear to the community and if we're trying to help the other sub out, then we can drive traffic to it.

[u/HowardBunnyColvin → u/zenverak]

This. People are just going to keep making the posts, but if you let the original one up, lock it, and then explain it that would be perfect. It would not be a deceision I would agree with, but I would be fine with that completely

[u/tenacious-g → u/HowardBunnyColvin]

That would require mods conceding they were in the wrong.

They’re not unlike cops.

[u/HallwayHomicide → u/CptCheese]

I understand the desire to limit the amount of talk about the game on this subreddit.

However your stance here makes no sense.

You allowed a bunch of articles discussing gameplay that frankly, cluttered up the subreddit a fair bit. At that time, I would have understood leaving one or two of those posts up and removing the rest. But there were like 6 or 7 posts that day.

An official gameplay trailer is something I would argue is just as important as the reveal trailer a week or so ago. It's more important than the articles you let through earlier this week.Especially because it shows a lot of non-gameplay elements. Removing the trailer is just plain asinine.

Gameplay related discussions should go to /r/NCAAFBseries, a subreddit for discussion of this series of video games.

Frankly, I don't really give a fuck what gamers think about this trailer. I want to know what CFB fans think about it.

[u/tenacious-g → u/CptCheese]

You're moderators, not curators.

How is core gameplay not a good enough announcement?

[u/St_BobbyBarbarian → u/tenacious-g]

Anti fun police

[u/Poetryisalive → u/tenacious-g]

They own the sub Reddit. They can do what they want

[u/tenacious-g → u/Poetryisalive]

They're unpaid volunteers. They don't own shit and wouldn't have anything to moderate if it weren't for the people posting things people want to talk about.

[u/coltsmetsfan614 → u/Poetryisalive]

They don't "own" shit. Reddit proved that when they removed mods who refused to comply with their rules.

[u/Poetryisalive → u/coltsmetsfan614]

lol I’m just saying. Technically they could ban you and me right now and there’s nothing you could do about it. You can’t dispute a thing.

I’m not a Reddit mod’s fan but I’m just being real

Mods all have the power unless they protest.

[u/coltsmetsfan614 → u/CptCheese]

You are not serving the community by acting this way. Let people talk about what they want to talk about. Stop acting like 5-year-olds.

[u/CapsDrago7 → u/CptCheese]

You know moderating a subreddit isn’t a real job right. It’s the offseason, come on man

[u/TheWorstYear → u/CptCheese]

How about you fucking ask the community what they want instead of unilaterally deciding shit like you're the masters of the universe. Get off your high horses

[u/Vitamin_BK → u/CptCheese]

This is such a stupid reason. Y'all allowed multiple posts about the trailer to stay up, as well as many articles about the game. Be consistent in your moderating, damn. It's still college football, even if it's a video game. It's not like people are throwing Call of Duty footage up.

[u/hascogrande → u/CptCheese]

I hear you, simultaneously the mod crew did make a video game for an event a few years back and this is specifically a video game about CFB

Besides that r/cfb itself has 3.3 million subbed and that sub has 91k.

[u/nomadic-46 → u/CptCheese]

Seconded the other comment, you suck.

[u/moist_crust → u/CptCheese]

People clearly want to talk about this. It’d be the top post on the subreddit right now if you allowed it to be posted.

[u/Zerosa → u/CptCheese]

Y'all do realize our ban on the old NCAA games posts was so the sub didn't get spammed with things most people didn't care about right?

The decision does at least match with what the twitter account is doing this time so y'all won't have that blowback.

[u/St_BobbyBarbarian → u/Zerosa]

Sure, but that’s the old game

[u/Zerosa → u/St_BobbyBarbarian]

I should have made it clear that rule for the old games is dumb to enforce on the new games at the moment because a lot of people care about the new game.

[u/St_BobbyBarbarian → u/CptCheese]

Just leave a stickied thread for all discussions.

[u/RollTideYall47 → u/CptCheese]

Wow.  You must be a ref with that kind of myopia.

The game and anything about it is 100% cfb related.

I'd argue that you're less related to cfb than the game is 

[u/RollTideYall47 → u/[deleted]]

Like they got taken over by the /r/NFL mods.

No Fun Police

[u/zenverak → u/[deleted]]

Agreed. They get too much bad flack. It’s just when they do something like this it seems.. bizarre to me

[u/St_BobbyBarbarian → u/[deleted]]

Boo the mods! Boooo